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The FBI on Sunday issued the strongest warning to date about possible attacks by the ISISterrorist group against the U.S. military inside the homeland. In a joint intelligence bulletin issued overnight by the FBI with the Department of Homeland Security, officials strongly urged those who serve in uniform to scrub their social media accounts of […]

High-ranking officers in the United States military are being replaced by the Obama administration and for a number of dubious reasons. The latest is General John Allen, who was embroiled in the Petraeus affair. T he following are the military officers who resigned under or were removed by President Obama. General David Petraeus is perhaps the most vi…

WASHINGTON — As political unrest continues in post-coup Egypt, two amphibious assault ships have moved to the coast there, the commandant of the Marine Corps said Thursday. The USS Kearsarge and the USS San Antonio “moved up into the Red Sea and parked off of Egypt,” a couple of nights ago, “because we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Gen. James Amo…

Like many World War II veterans, after he returned home, Alan Wood didn’t talk much about his role at Iwo Jima .It wasn’t until years later, Wood began to share that it was he who provided the American flag raised by US marines on the peak of Mount Suribachi in 1945.Wood passed on April 18 in Sierra Madre, Calif. After the war, Wood worked at the Jet P…

John Harrison was halfway to a bachelor’s degree but financially strapped when Marine recruiters began calling him in 2007.His wife, Amanda Harrison, recalls their pitches: “Hey, there’s all these different ways to finish your degree and you don’t have to go into a lot of debt to do it.”That was perhaps true until last week, when the Marines told Sgt. Har…

U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in Egypt were not permitted by the State Department to carry live ammunition, limiting their ability to respond to attacks like those this week on the U.S. consulate in Cairo.Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “did not permit U.S. Marine guards to carry live ammunition,” according to multiple reports on U.S. Mar…

A team of 200 U.S. Marines began patrolling Guatemala's western coast this week in an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in the Central America region, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.The Marines are deployed as part of Operation Martillo, a broader effort started last Jan. 15 to stop drug trafficking along the Central American…

RABAT, Morocco – The spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Morocco says that a helicopter accident during a training exercise has left two U.S. Marines dead and two injured.Rodney Ford said the incident took place in southern Morocco on Wednesday during the exercise by a Marine expeditionary unit and the Moroccan military.Further information about the inciden…

Under direction from the White House, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday announced that the Pentagon will cut projected spending by $78 billion over the next five years and shrink the size of the Army and Marine Corps. The changes mean that the military would see annual budget increases that barely exceed inflation in coming years and that…

Going to be sure to see this one – PATROL BASE JAKER – COMING IN JUNE a feature-length documentary film about the US Marine Corps and the practice of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan. The film apparently covers of the history of Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to the current U.S. war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.We haven’t had the chance to see…